The negative effect of the coronavirus pandemic on language arts scores among Franklin County third graders this past spring appears to have hit the Franklin County Schools much harder than it did the Apalachicola Bay Charter School. The Florida Department of Education reported that 54 percent of third-grade students statewide this year scored a satisfactory…
Franklin Countys unemployment numbers improved slightly in May, even as the size of the labor force grew According to preliminary numbers released Friday by the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, the preliminary seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in May was at 3.8 percent, two-tenths of 1 percentage point better than the April rate of 4.0 percent….
The Panhandle Players, the Forgotten Coasts community theatre group, made a request to the county earlier this year to repair the lot at Apalachicolas Chapman Auditorium, which it oversees. The county has come through. Commissioner Noah Lockley used $27,310 funds from his road paving budget to pave the lot with asphalt in front of the…
The Franklin County Schools have reinforced the importance of the schools dress code, making several changes to address areas that needed correction. While the school board still must approve the revised dress code as part of the code of conduct, Principal Laurence Pender outlined the proposal with the school board at a June workshop. In…
Doris Shiver Gibbs, one of Floridas longest serving supervisor of elections, passed away Monday morning, at 10:42 a.m. at the age of 69. First elected Franklin County Supervisor of Elections in 1980, Gibbs went on to serve 28 years in the county office before retiring in 2008. She rose to statewide prominence after serving in…
Apalachicola Mayor Kevin Begos died early Saturday morning in Tallahassee. Members of the family confirmed Kevin Paul Begos, Jr. passed away at Capital Regional Medical Center at 1:40 a.m., at the age of 63. He had been rushed there early Thursday morning via medavac after experiencing cardiac arrest. His mother, Jane Richardson, of Apalachicola, was…
COVID-19 vaccination rates lag in vast swaths of rural Florida compared to the rest of the state — a pattern that also has been seen in other areas of the country, a new report shows. Neither Franklin nor Gulf counties are immune. The report, released Friday by the state Department of Health, said 55 percent…
Franklin Countys tax base has fattened up considerably over the past year, growing in the neighborhood of 8 percent, based on the property appraisers initial good faith estimates. According to numbers provided the county commission at its June 1 meeting. Property Appraiser Rhonda Skipper estimated the combined taxable value for use in the 2021-22 budget…
A new interim manager, a good year for airplane traffic and a plan to bring in someone with an eye towards attracting business, are whats going on at the Apalachicola Regional Airport. Ted Mosteller, selected as interim manager June 1 after the resignation of Airport Manager Jason Puckett, offered a detailed report on what was…
For the first time probably ever, but certainly since Franklin Delano Roosevelts New Deal in the 1940s attracted a strong following in the rural South, Franklin County is now more red than blue. As of Tuesday, among the countys 8,150 registered voters, Republicans outnumbered Democrats 3,418 to 3,408, with 1,324 voters preferring to remain without…
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